Schoolchildren publish bee research in science journal
DEC 22, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024925
Guardian : A scientific paper published today in the prestigious British Royal Society journal Biology Letters reveals that “bumble-bees can use a combination of colour and spatial relationships in deciding which colour of flower to forage from.” According to Alom Shaha in his article for the Guardian, the paper is significant as much because of who wrote it as for the research donethe authors are a class of 8- to 10-year-olds from Blackawton Primary School in Devon, UK. Shaha discusses the students’ work and their adult adviserstheir teacher, Dave Strudwick, and a neuroscientist, Beau Lotto.
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